The way SLRs are being sold today may not be doing your photography any favors. Fix this by the purchase of one extra lens. Today when you buy an SLR, whether analog or digital, it either is a body only or it comes with a zoom lens. Kits zooms are usually ok lenses but with …
New Group Albums Allow Multiple People to Easily Contribute to, View and Share Photos and Videos All in One Place New Feature Sponsored by Sony; Also Hosts Wedding-Themed Group Album Press Release Leading photo and video-sharing site Photobucket(http://www.photobucket.com) today announced the launch of GroupAlbums, giving people an entirely new way to create and share photosand …
There is no point shooting a lot if you never analyze what you have done. The process that should go hand-in-hand with shooting more is analyzing more. Analyze more means to bring more conscious consideration to all the images you look at, both yours and other people’s, and to setting aside the time to actually …
It is autumn in Australia and I was curious to see how the landscape would render in infrared. It is autumn in Australia and I decided to head off on Saturday out of Melbourne to Mount Macedon, a cooler area that also has a lot of European trees. I was very curious to see how …
We’ve been testing the E-3 (among others) for infrared photography suitability and to discover the best ways to use it. The Olympus E-3 digital camera is an impressive unit. It has a decent resolution of 10Mpixels, LivePreview using the shooting sensor, a swing and tilt LCD screen and excellent ergonomics and weather proofing. The weather …
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Ideas of natural talent are being overturned by a focus on practice. Practice makes perfect. Like many skills, photography requires practice, practice and more practice. Recent research is presenting a convincing case that our old ideas about some people possessing natural talent and genius are wrong. Sure, people may have a natural predisposition in certain …
Other people’s reviews can assist you when making a purchase decision. But once you have your gear, you need to do your own testing. Reading the manuals is only the first step of getting the most from your camera gear, you have to become familiar with how it actual works in practice. This means playing …
Clean images are not always what we want. So let’s dirty up your photography. If you think back to analogue photography, we often made use of very grainy film, soft focus, blur or rough forms of printing to create a particular look. There is no reason not to do the same with digital. There are …
Where people are looking in your images offers you another level of control. We are very sensitive to where people are looking. Consider how disturbing it is when you are talking to someone and they look away from you. We are very keyed into people’s eyes and we can use this in our photography. One …
Optimal growth and development occurs when you are outside your comfort zone. The concept of a comfort zone is a useful one. Your comfort zone encompasses everything you already know, can do readily, people and places you know, and such. When we are within our comfort zone we are, as it goes, comfortable. It is …